Famke Janssen Quotes

I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.

I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.

I personally like to do independent films.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director.

I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.

I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.

I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.

I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.

I like the work that I get to do.

I know Dark Phoenix is a huge part of the X-Men saga, so I'm assuming they're at least going to want to touch on it, but I don't know and I don't know whether I would want to be involved. That depends on many different things.

I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.

I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

I don't watch TV.

I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.

I am attracted to the dark side of life!

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way.

Film has played such a big part in my life, in my impressions of the United States.

Everybody gets typecast in movies, but you have to make wise choices. I'd say around 90 percent of movie casting is about the way you look, so you have to fight that. If producers had their way, I'd only be in action films, but I'm interested in a more varied career than that.

During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy.

As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.

I always feel like I want to do my career my own way. I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.